Bullet For The General DVD

 Klaus Kinski is brilliant
A true master piece and an absolute must have for all fans of the spagetti western genre
Submitted by fdecorrado (Melbourne Australia) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No

 ...AND NOTHING FOR ME,THANKS!
Great Saghetti Western,but not enough violance for my taste. Great performance by Klaus Kinski,but he is only in the movie for 10 minutes combined. Great surprise ending,but it doesn't fit well with the rest of the movie.Great job by Anchor Bay digitaly remastering the movie and no "but's" there,still the movie is very average. Fans of Classic Westerns will probably more enjoy this than Spaghetti Western fans,but then again.....
Submitted by Intone Flux (Versecz-Yu) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
This review is for a different format.

 more mexicans than a taco bills drivein
This was great camera work was fantastic pleanty of sweating peons and best of all agreat storyline this is now one of my favourites my copy is not that good getting near the end but living ten thousand miles away from point of purchase I guess I will have to live with it
Submitted by ellocco (melbourne australia) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
This review is for a different format.

 The First 'Mexican Revolution' Spaghetti Western.
This is a superior Spaghetti Western starring Gian Maria Volonte (of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS & FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE fame), Klaus Kinski (as a priest) and Lou Castel (as a sneaky baby-faced gringo assassin)is one of the best. Made in 1966, a classical year of the genre, this also features a great score by Luis Bacalov. El Chuncho (Volonte) and his gang work for General Elias and raid munitions trains before turning over the arms to their employer. Bill Tate (Castel) is a gringo who joins up with Chuncho's gang so that he can gain access to the General's secret hideout in the mountains in order to assassinate him with a gold bullet that he keeps in his case. This is a deal that he has struck with the Mexican government. To begin with, Tate continues with the gang in collecting arms from the government. The gang join a liberation party at San Miguel and Chuncho is faced with a dilemma as to whether to stay and protect the village from a forthcoming attack, or to proceed and go on with the gang to Elias for the money. Chuncho decides to stay (along with his brother Santo, the priest), but on discovering that the gang has stolen the machine gun they had previously discovered, he is furious and chases after the gang. He kills the thief and re-establishes his authority over the gang. He doesn't go back to San Miguel and is reluctant to go directly to Elias and arranges an exchange with Elias' mediator which is not according to Tate's plans(he 'must' get to Elias). On his arrival, Elias' mediator is actually under an attack and so a battle ensues. During the battle, Tate kills Elias' man and throws his money far away - which means that Chuncho must now go directly to Elias. They travel on and Chuncho delivers the guns to Elias but finds himself under the sentence of death for deserting the town of San Miguel. The executioner is none other than Santo himself who had escaped the massacre. Whilst this is happening, Tate assassinates Elias and kills Santo before he can kill Chuncho. He rides off with his mission completed. The news makes national headlines and Tate collects his money in "gold, not paper dollars" from the Mexican government before returning to his hotel. Outside the hotel, on a park bench, Chuncho is waiting with a gun to kill the gringo. However, the gringo explains that he has left half of his money for Chuncho with the hotel clerk. Confused by this vast amount of money, Chuncho begins to live like a rich man for a while. He goes dancing and enjoys upper class women and agrees to go with Tate to the United States on business. However, on seeing Tate pushing in on the queue waiting for train tickets, abusing his poor fellow countrymen with a haughty attitude in the process, his anger begins to rise. On getting the tickets, Tate begins to boast how he tricked Chuncho into joining his gang and how he was able to kill Elias etc. As they are boarding the train, Chuncho, instead of boarding, takes out his gun and shoots Tate dead, sending him back to the States in a carriage. The finale sees Chuncho shedding his rich man clothes and running away shouting to a shoe-shining peon to buy dynamite with the money he has left behind. This is easily one of the best Spaghetti Westerns ever to be made, and the first to deal with the Mexican Revolution as a setting. These Mexican Revolutionary Spaghetti Western also came to be known as the 'Zapata' Spaghetti westerns.
Submitted by a reviewer (England, United Kingdom)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
This review is for a different format.

Have you seen this movie?